Question:
Ever read anything good by H.H. Munro (Saki)?
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Everything he wrote is amazingly funny, yet PG Wodehouses 'Jeevs & Wooster' stories have somehow always overshadowed him, wrongly in my opinion.
He published a collection of shorts, which included a great story of a man who could teach animals to speak English, and proves this by teaching a partys hostess's cat to speak. The cat then spills all the tittle-tattle, gossip and maligning comments it had heard whispered by the hostess and her guests. The next time he visits, the cat has supposedly disappeared, and there's a small patch of newly turned soil in the garden.
An extremely witty writer, and commentator on 1920s English Upper Class society. Virginia Woolf without the tedium, and with humour.